Word: fluxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Containment Policy, which was designed largely to meet the military threat, will no longer suffice in a situation of flux. Containment must now be translated into positive terms which can play upon Soviet weaknesses and which will take into account the increasing demand for neutralism and economic advance among Asian, African, and Arab nations...
Swinburn's "ring," said the government spokesman, had reported to two British embassy first secretaries-John G. Gove and James B. Flux. The diplomats were given 72 hours to leave the country. (The British Foreign Office promptly declared that two officials of parallel status in Egypt's London embassy were persona non grata...
While the attack and midfield starting positions are still in a state of flux, Munro will probably stick with the same lineup he has used previously, led by Captain Dexter Lewis. Opening at the defense will be Jim Herscot, Roger Martin, and Fred Sharf. Mark Rhine will be in the crease again...
...United Planets Cruiser C-57-D, soaring along on its quanto-gravitetic hyperdrive, is more than a year out from Earth Base on a special mission to the planetary system of Alpha Aquilae. As it approaches the Planet Altair-4, it changes flux, reverses polarity, sits down gently as great hairy bolts of blue electricity spray out to cushion the landing. Gangways flip down; scouts run out. The sky is green, the surrounding desert an odd shade of pink. Suddenly a big. black robot drives up, addresses the commander (Leslie Nielsen) in cultured English, invites him to visit the planet...
Range and change have brought the Air Force a whole set of new problems, e.g., the low (11%) re-enlistment rate of desperately needed technicians (some of the F-100s, without enough trained men to maintain them, have been grounded ). But the new Air Force, in all its flux, is nonetheless sustained by a stable strength. In its short ten years of existence as a separate branch of the armed services, it has acquired tradition, theory, individuality, discipline and a high sense of mission-all while being constantly at work to meet the threat that the U.S. has never known...